Alfredo Augusto Torero Fernández de Córdova (September 10, 1930 in Huacho, Lima Region, Peru – June 19, 2004 in Valencia, Spain) was a Peruvian anthropologist and linguist.
There he obtained a doctorate in 1965, under the direction of the linguist André Martinet, with his thesis Le puquina, la troisième langue générale du Pérou.
The present classification of the Quechua language family is based fundamentally on his analysis and that of Gary Parker, who, independently, came to similar conclusions.
Torero's proposed precise homeland for Quechua was the central coast of Peru in the Lima Region, but that remains both unproven and challenged by other linguists.
The Alfredo Torero auditorium at the Faculty of Letters and Human Sciences, National University of San Marcos in Lima is named after him.